Marco Jury Expanded as Three New Jurors Seated
In Litchfield county, Olympia Maori, 20, of New Haven, faces a second trial for shooting John Bagnane in New Haven after a delayed jury panel. Three additional jurors joined William J. Hunt as veniremen, with multiple challenges and defense actions shaping today’s proceedings. Several local residents and spectators observed the session, including relatives of jurors and the accused.
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Litchfield
William J. Hunt
Bethlehem
Olympia Maori
New Haven
John Bagnane
Litchfield County
Hunt
George Th. Hinman
Dann
Davey
Torrington
Frank J. Harrison
Sharon
Matt Darling
Kent
Ecourt
Arabs Join Revolt Against French in Syria
A Bagdad dispatch reports Arabs from Damascus to Homs have joined the revolt against the French. Armenian refugees are being armed against rebels. Syrian leaders seek aid from the Moslem world and urge the League of Nations to inspect the crisis. Opposition to Cenits policy grows among Muslims and Christians, with calls for his execution as a murderer by extremists.
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London
Bagdad
Damascus
Homs
League of Nations
Cen
McGuinness to resign as Democratic Party leader
John McGuinness, longtime Democratic Executive board chair and co leader with John A. Cornell, is expected to retire soon. The party faces a possible drafting of a successor as the chairman position, with opposition and waning interest following recent defeats.
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Cornell
John McGuinness
John A. Cornell
McGuinness
Fred Atwater
Republican Party
Democratic Party
Plot to murder Mussolini foiled at last moment
Rome, Nov 6 AP told a week of Fascist triumph ended with police revealing Mussolini was saved from an assassin's bullet by a timely coup. Tito Zamboni, former Unitarian Socialist deputy, allegedly plotted to shoot from the Chigi palace balcony as Mussolini reviewed the Fascist parade marking victory over Austria.
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Rome
Italy
Benito Mussolini
Mussolini
Tito Zamboni
Chigi Palace
Austria
Fairfield Man Illinois Hangs Self in Ill Health Despair
Fairfield Illinois Nov 5 despondency over ill health is believed to have prompted John Bogdany sixty one Grace Street to die by suicide by hanging in a bedroom of his home. The body was found by his wife upon her return from shopping in Bridgeport. He was an employee at the Ives toy factory in Bridgeport but had been out of work since Saturday. He is survived by his wife and two sons Stephen and John who run a club on Kings Highway. Earlier a fire scare at his home was investigated and no culprit found. family says health worries and unemployment weighed on him.
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Fairfield
John Bogdany
Grace Street
Bogdany
Bridgeport
Ives Toy Factory
Stephen
John
Kings Highway
Ile
Gerald Chapman
Supreme Court
McGuinness Xeen
Democratic Executive Committee
Walts
Alderman Varmer
United States
Polar
Wheeler
House
Ways and Means
State
Fairfield County
Chapman
Scott
Chauncey Marvin Cady
China
John S. Martin
Farzoua
Ridgewood Country Club
Danbury
Wchool Board of
Milford
Devon School
Francis X. Bustman
Dutch Anderson
Siiyer
Tut-Ankh-Amen
Mussolini
Rabs
Trench
League of Nations
Sarrail
New York
General Motors
Colton
Body of King Tut Uncovered Revealing Wrappings of Beauty
Cairo Egypt Nov report announces the uncovering of Tut-Ankh-Amen s tomb in October with the lifting of sarcophagi lids. The second coffin bore an Osiris effigy and gold covered panels. Beads flowers and a linen shroud surrounded the mummy, later photographed before the final coffin’s removal.
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King Tut
Cairo
Egypt
Tut-Ankh- Amen
Abrabte
Ministry of Works
Tut-Ankh-Amen
Osiris
Buto
Tut
One Armed Editor and Author Wins Trophy at Ridgewood
Danbury reports editor and noted children book author John Martin, who has one arm, won the President's Cup at Ridgewood Golf Club. Martin, a finished player rated among the region's best, resides in Bethel and secured the trophy in a summer tournament.
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Danbury
Specil
John
Martin
Ridgewood Golf Club
Bethel
Bridgeport Hangs Ruling: Chapman to Die in December
Gerald Chapman must die as the Supreme Court upholds the capital punishment verdict. Execution date tentatively set for December 3. Also notes retirements, local politics, and assorted news items from Bridgeport and Fairfield County, including a Fairfield man’s suicide and legal actions.
Daughter Slayer Ready for Trial in Littleton
In Littleton, Dr. Herold J. Blazer, a physician, faces trial for allegedly slaying his daughter Hazel. Jury selection proceeds with 12 prospective jurors in the box after 44 talesmen questioned. The defense presses an insanity plea and argues the act may not be a crime under the claim the daughter was an imbecile and life ended to “make her happy.”
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Littleton
Cole
Herold J. Blazer
Hazel
Talesmen
Blazer
Mr. Blazer
House committee adopts widespread tax cuts in new bill
The House Ways and Means committee voted for broad tax reductions drafting a revenue bill. They cut the maximum surtax to 20 percent and raised personal exemptions, with lower normal rates on taxable income. The plan aims for about 300 million dollars in reductions, affecting excises and possible inheritance tax changes.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Congress
Millen
Treasury
Lord
Retired Orient Missionary Rev Chauncey Cady Dies
Rev. Chauncey Marvin Cady, 71, retired missionary and university professor, died after a short illness at his home in Stratord. He spent years in China and Japan with the American Board foreign missions, taught English at Doshisha University and Imperial Japanese Government College in Kyoto, and worked to foster US Japan friendship. An Oberlin graduate, he studied at Yale, later returning to the Far East before his retirement. (Continued on Page Eleven.)
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Chauncey Marvin . Cady
China
Japan
Mar. Cady
Goard ‘Oreign Missions
Orient
Doshisha University
Imperial Tasanese Government College
Kyoto
United States
Oberlin
Oberlin College
Oberlin Theological Seminary
Yale
Far Hinet
Chapman Resigned Hears News of Fate
SMARTEFORD November 5 AP Gerald Chapman learned from Warden H K W Scott that the Connecticut Supreme Court let his death sentence stand and he faces hanging in four weeks. He accepted the news calmly and will receive last rites from Father Barry.
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Chapman
Smarteford
H. K. W. Scott
Gerald Chapman
Supreme Court of Errore
Connecticut
Condemned Man’s Life Tied to Nationwide Chase in 1925
Patrolman Joseph Skelly of the New Britain police fell as Gerald Chapman attempted to blow a department store vault in New Britain. Chapman, escaping down stairs, killed the officer and fled. He was captured in Muncie, Indiana, on January 18, 1925, and brought back to Connecticut after a stint in Atlanta. The Hartford trial featured a sensational legal battle with numerous witnesses, earning Chapman the moniker the “super-bandit.” He was convicted in Hartford Superior Court and sentenced to hang, with a gubernatorial reprieve granted during appeals. The case involved extensive testimony from innkeepers in Meriden and others, detailing the pretrial moves and the night Chapman and accomplice Shean spent at a Meriden inn.
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Joseph Skelly
New Britain
Gerald Chapman
Chapman
Muncie
Ind
Conneticut
Atlanta
New York
Hartford
Supering
Dune
Pasa
Stearn
Sikelly
Meriden
Shean
New Brittain
Davidson and Leventhal
Pal
Lawyer Reveals True Identity of Anderson
Rochester observers learn from attorney William Baker the real name and birthplace of bank robber "Dutch" Anderson. The Danish-born Ivan Dahl Von Teller allegedly fled Denmark as a teen, then moved to the United States, rising from petty crime to a feared desperado. The gunman was killed by his own weapon in Muskegon, with his mother waiting in Denmark and Baker handling the grim news for police. The full life history appears in the Rochester Journal and Press Express.
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Rochester
Michigan City
America
Avanta Federal Prison
Mr. Baker
George “Dutch” Anderson
Muskeron
Ett
Athbers
Anderson
Helor Brown
Henry
Tae
St. Louis
Denmark
Ivan Dahl von Teller
Ita
Bis
Chapman death sentence upheld by Supreme Court in fatal Hartford case
The Supreme Court of Errors in Bridgeport upheld the death sentence for Gerald Chapman, convicted in Hartford county for the murder of Patrolman Joseph Skelly of New Britain. Chief Justice George W. Wheeler wrote that no errors occurred in the trial, and the verdict by the jury was the only reasonable outcome. The ruling confirms Chapman will be hanged on December 3.
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John H. Trumbull
Supreme Court of Errors
Hartford
Wheeler
Gerald ‘Chapman
Bridgeport
Newell Jennings
Hartford County
Joseph Skelly
New Britain
Supreme Court
George W. Wheeler
Bet money offered for gunman body at morgue
A $1,000 bid was offered for the body of George Dutch Anderson, the hunted gunman who killed four and was linked to other murders. Geo W. Relig of Atlanta wired the offer to Chief Hansen, seeking the body for exhibition and to aid the Hammond widow. Police said a state law may block the sale, while crowds viewed the corpse and a counterfeit letter claiming the killer’s alive circulated.
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Muskegon
Mich
Aly
George
Dutch) Anderson
Hfe
Geox W. Relig
Atlanta
Hansen
Gife
Charles Hammond
Anderson
Gary
Ind
Foo
Twan
Michigan
Secret Service
Andeats Gang
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